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Joomla! 1.5 Top Extensions Cookbook

This month im going to review another book; Joomla! 1.5 Top Extensions Cookbook by Packt Publishing. The review will be published on this site, like always.

The Joomla! 1.5 Top Extensions Cookbook is one of Packt Publishing’s cookbook series meaning that it contains recipes. This book contains over 80 different recipes to use extensions to add maps, image galleries, slideshows, audio and video players, security, forums, shopping cart, guestbook and other functionalities to your site. Each recipe is a small articles/paragraphs with an idea and how to work it out, just like a regular cookbook.

What you will learn from this book :

Implement access control list by creating groups and assigning permissions to groups

Create backups that can be restored on any other Joomla! site and relocate a site to another server without any hassle.

Add an Ajax contact form with custom fields using AiContactSafe extension and add Ajax search to Joomla! site using PixSearch extension.

Import hundreds of users from a CSV file enabling them to log in without registering themselves using UserPort extension

Integrate phpBB with Joomla! so that users from phpBB can access Joomla! and vice versa without further registration and by a single login using JFusion extension

Send tweets automatically upon publishing articles in Joomla!

Add project management functionalities to your Joomla!-based sites and get notified about new contents from time to time (for subscribers)

Add attachment to an article in a much easier way using Attachment plugin

Build a document repository for Joomla! using DOCMan extension for sharing files through your site or if you want to provide downloads